Luanda ­ The East Timor National Assembly speaker, Fernando La Sama de
Araújo, said Saturday in Luanda that his country is enjoying political
stability and is moving towards development.

Fernando La Sama de Araújo said so during a meeting with a delegation
of the Angolan parliament, headed by its speaker, Fernando da Piedade Dias
dos Santos, within the framework of his two-day visit to Angola that ended
on Saturday.

He said that after the political instability the country went through
in 2006 and the attempts on the president of the Republic and the prime
minister, José Ramos Horta and Xanana Gusmăo, respectively, in 2008, the
situation got normalised, being the consolidation of democracy a real fact
at present.

“The process of reconciliation among the political forces, led by
president Ramos Horta, is on good track,” stressed Fernando da Sama de
Araújo, after underlining the contribute of Angola to the process of
decolonisation of East Timor.

According to the Parliament speaker, one of the challenges for the
Timor authorities has to do with the Portuguese language, as the country
is threatened with the invasion of English.

He said Portuguese has to be consecrated as the official language,
stating that only 10 percent of the population speaks it fluently.

In order to settle this matter, Fernando Araújo asked for Angola’s
assistance, in addition to actions in the sectors of exploration of oil,
defence and security and creation of the Supreme Court, with a view to the
political stability and democracy.

He called for the establishment soon of an Angolan diplomatic mission
in Dili, and an air connection between the two countries, to facilitate
the contacts.